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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a …
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- 9783030007287
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- XXVI, 525 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe : Archaeology, Dendrochronology,…
This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e. on shores and in shallow water areas of lakes, bogs, marshes, rivers, estuaries and lagoons. The relevant archaeological remains are in most cases wa…
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- 978-3-031-52780-7
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- XVI, 318
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- Natural Science in Archaeology (ARCHAEOLOGY)
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- 900 PRE
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, an…
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- 978-3-031-03956-0
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Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
Estella Weiss-Krejci is an archaeologist and social anthropologist. She received a PhD and a venia docendi from the University of Vienna. Her research interests include ancient Maya water management and mortuary behavior, and dead-body politics in prehistoric, medieval, and post-medieval Europe. She has been a recipient of grants awarded by the Austrian Science Fund, the Portuguese Science and …
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- 978-3-031-03956-0
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- Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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- XII, 317
The Hoarding Vikings
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Bornholm: a treasure island -- 2 The multi-causal hoards -- 3 Identifying Bornholm's hoards: content, character, and chronology -- 4 Classification of production, circulation, and distribution data -- 5 Silver flows: analysis of production data -- 6 Stab, bend, and cut: analysi…
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- 9781032647760
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El Hierro Island Global Geopark
This open access book explores El Hierro Island, which is geologically the youngest of the Canary Islands (Spain). Having registered its latest volcanic eruption in 2011-2012, it is an oceanic subtropical island with low population pressure and a largely unchanged natural landscape. Accordingly, a great geodiversity of volcanic morphologies and erosion processes has been preserved. In addition,…
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- 978-3-031-07289-5
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- Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism
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- VII, 123
Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development at Cham Sacred Sites in Vietnam
This open access book considers the growing field of heritage tourism from community perspectives. It explores how the Cham—Vietnam’s large ethnic minority—reconcile their needs for economic development with the boundaries circumscribed by their traditional culture. It examines struggles that local minority stakeholders like the Cham face when trying to participate in areas of development…
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- 978-981-99-3349-5
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- XIX, 234
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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …
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- 9781461935674
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- 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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The foundations of cognitive archaeology
In The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, and archaeology to establish theoretically founded and emp…
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- 9780262305273
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- 1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) :illustrations
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A History of Egypt
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods ma…
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- 9781107325166
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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